Elizabeth police arrested one of three suspects in an attack on a city woman who was slashed in the face early today.
The Star-Ledger

ELIZABETH — A man was arrested and two women were being sought for a seemingly unprovoked attack early today on a city woman who was slashed in the face, police said.

Jahmad Bray, 20, of Elizabeth, was arrested moments after the iattack on the 37-year-old victim, police said.

Officers responding to reports of woman bleeding near 27 S. Reid St. at 6:10 a.m. found the victim with lacerations on the side of her face and on her neck, police said. The woman told officers a man and two women approached her and demanded that she tell her daughter to come outside, police said.

When the woman said she didn't have a daughter, the three assailants attacked her. The man grabbed her by the head and cut her with what appeared to be a straight razor, police said.

Police later found Bray on Third Avenue and the victim identified him as her attacker, authorities said.

The victim was taken to University Hospital in Newark for treatment of non life-threatening injuries, police said.

Police are still searching of the two woman and ask the anybody with information about the attack call Detective Thomas Koczur at 908-558-2048.